Queen Victoria"The wit and astringency of Eminent Victorians have mellowed in this endearing portrait of England's first 'respectable' monarch. Strachey's study of her youth, with its Whiggish sympathies and the unseen influences of Baroness Lehzen, King Leopold and Baron Stockmar, of her total surrender to Prince Albert, of her relations with Melbourne, Peel, Palmerston and Disraeli, may cast an image almost as legendary as the pious icon that it replaced."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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